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Donate to wolf sanctuary, get ‘grisly death’ on ‘Game of Thrones’

/ 11:37 AM June 07, 2014

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WASHINGTON—George R.R. Martin, author of the books that were made into the cult TV saga “Game of Thrones,” has promised a “grisly death” to two donors who give $20,000 to a wolf sanctuary.

In a video and statement on the crowdfunding site Prizeo.com, the author calls for donations to the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary, a refuge near the southwestern US city of Santa Fe.

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“I’ve always been fond of wolves,” he said, noting that “US wolf populations hit critical lows during the twentieth century.”

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The money raised — the overall goal is set at $500,000 — will also support The Food Depot charity, which provided more than 500,000 meals to people in need last year.

The US novelist calls for donations starting at just $10.

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But at the highest level, $20,000, a man and a woman will each be given the chance of having a character — “lordling, knight, peasant, whore, lady, maester, septon, anything” — named after them in Martin’s upcoming “Song of Ice and Fire” novel, according to Prizeo.

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“You will certainly meet a grisly death,” the site warned.

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As of Friday evening at 9:00 pm (0100 GMT Saturday) more than $280,000 had been raised — including two donations of $20,000 each claiming the character-naming prizes.

Other rewards offered for smaller-scale donations included t-shirts, books and a drawing to visit the writer and the wolves.

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Since its debut in 2011, the HBO drama based on Martin’s best-selling novels about a struggle for power between feuding clans in seven mythical kingdoms has won a devoted global fan base — President Barack Obama reportedly among them — to establish itself as the star of the US cable channel’s stable.

The series has wowed critics with its densely-layered plot, lavish production values and a readiness to kill off, invariably in gruesome fashion, protagonists who had hitherto seemed integral to the show.

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